To borrow a poker line: “I’ll see your Joe Lieberman, and I’ll raise you a Chuck Hagel…” So forget speculating on when Obama heads to Iraq, start your bloggin' about who should go!

FARGO, N.D. -- Obama said he had not changed his position regarding Iraq troop withdrawals, but that he could "refine" his policy after assessing the situation there. This, of course, echoes what Obama said at the Sept. 26 NBC News/MSNBC debate from ...

2008 HORSE Champion Scotty Nguyen is playing on the ESPN feature table … in a different uniform. The VietPrince of Poker was decked out in Full Tilt gear last week. This week it’s PokerStars …

He’s not an actual Team PokerStars member (yet) … but considering Star’s intense focus on the Asian market in the coming years, he’s gotta be on their short list for something, as we know Nguyen has already fully captured the Northern Oklahoma market.

The final preliminary preceding the WSOP Main Event, Event #53, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em, began its second day with 72 players still vying for the $278,180 first prize. At the start of the day, Matt Graham had already secured his third...

This year's WSOP has even more events, 55 in total, including a new $2500 HORSE event, $5K Mixed Holdem events, and a $5K Heads-Up No Limit World Championship.

Interview with Lebanese-born poker professional Freddy Deeb. Freddy talks all about his poker career, emigrating, his family and his lucky shirt.

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We've put together a guide for hosting your own home poker game. It includes new sections on tournament payout structure suggestions and dealing and shuffling.

UpChitCreek showing that he's not just a pretty face is sat on 43,000. It's fantastic to know he's doing well as says he's having a fantastic time too. He mentioned that he had a couple of young aggressive guys sat at his table, clearly they are being seduced by his friendly nature and are sending chips over to him. Good to know there is some action as most players are complaining of solid slow tables. Those wee fellas are looking for a trouble

Here are the chip counts as of the 2nd break of Day 1a: UpChitCreek: 43,000 efroni1: 34,000 ---Grazy---: 31,700 janus1984: 28,000 bigbalu67: 27,000 J Carlisle: 26,075 FRANEK-62: 22,000 samy715: 22,000 drohse: 22,000 DamnedToWin: 20,615 NeilMc: 19,700 realpokermon: 14,900 ashtyper: Out mr.vallentin: Out No huge moves during the last level, but UpChitCreek continues to do Scotland proud, leading the pack with 43,000. He said he actually was a bit higher than that during the last le

Harrah’s, the WSOP, and just about everybody is being tight-lipped about how many folks are gonna be in the Big One ‘08. Presumably because no one knows. I’m still thinking 7k is a pretty good over-under. We have no totals for Day 1A itself yet, but that’s why we can presume the number that briefly flashed on a special computer screen and observed by Benjo is accurate for the total count as of now. 4,649 with three days of sign-up to go.